UBalt Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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The UBalt Electronic Theses and Dissertations collection accepts theses and dissertations from all graduate programs at the University of Baltimore. Beginning in 2017, all graduate students are required to submit an electronic copy of their thesis or dissertation to this collection. Submissions prior to 2017 were at either the behest of an individual program or at the student's discretion.
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A Case of Two Cities: Residential Housing Patterns in Baltimore City: "A Case Study"
(2022-04-01)ABSTRACT A CASE OF TWO CITIES: RESIDENTIAL HOUSING PATTERNS IN BALTIMORE CITY: “A CASE STUDY” Charles N. Wilson It is well documented that there exists a historical pattern of public policy at all levels of ... -
Public Value in Privatization: The Military Housing Privatization Initiative of 1996
(2021-12)This case study examines the public value created by the Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) of 1996. It applies Moore’s (2005) theoretical proposition that public managers should create public value to one ... -
Human-Centered Performance Management for Designers
(2022-02)The performance evaluation is ubiquitous in industry, but is sometimes regarded as an outdated tool. In particular, performance evaluations often fail to collect a true picture of a designer’s value, fail to support the ... -
Conditioning Factors of Anti-Money Laundering Implementation in Brazil
(2022-01)This is a case study on the factors that influence the implementation in Brazil of a transnational legal order against money laundering (AML TLO). The research uses qualitative and quantitative evidence, guided by a process ... -
Online Collaborative Designing with Kids
(2021-12)Collaborative designing with kids is an evolving field and will only continue to grow. Exploring online approaches to collaborative designing has the potential to make this opportunity available to a broader demographic ... -
The Impact of Organizational Structure on Design Practices and Outcomes: A Case Study
(2022-02-10)The way we use something impacts 1) what we are able to get out of it, 2) our feelings about it, and 3) our willingness to continue using it. This qualitative exploratory case study investigated the impact of an astronomy ... -
Disengagement by a thousand cuts: The impact of microaggressions on employee engagement
(2021)Employee engagement has been explored in many fields and is recognized as an important factor in organizational success (Prasad, 2013). However, less is known about how microaggressions impact employee engagement. This ... -
Technology and Pregnant women: exploring pregnant women’s perception of mobile app design, utility, and information credibility
(2022-01-21)This study contributes to the research on pregnant women and their preferred use of mobile technology by exploring the perceptions of pregnant women of mobile app design, utility, and information technology. Explanatory ... -
Increasing Verbal Working Memory in Young-Old Adults by a Subtract-2 Span Task on Mobile Application
(2021-11-15)Working memory is the ability to retain and manipulate information for several seconds up to a minute while maintaining other information. Verbal working memory is the verbal component of this ability and declines with ... -
Readiness for Change: Assessing Employee Commitment to Peer Worker Integration in Drug Court Settings
(2021-11-10)The purpose of this study was to assess Maryland Drug Court employees’ readiness and perceived commitment to peer worker integration, as measured by the Readiness for Organizational Change Scale and the Commitment to ... -
The Social Determinants of Public Housing Performance
(2021-08)For the past twenty years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has used the Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS) to measure the performance of local public housing agencies in their implementation of ... -
Transnational Cooperation to Combat Boko Haram: The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF)
(2021-05)Transnational cooperation, particularly in the security sector, has become a platform through which contiguous countries or nations within a subregion collaborate to tackle common security threats or challenges. Against ... -
Increasing public safety in Baltimore through building transformative community and police relationships
(2021-07-13)The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) is required under a federal consent decree to commit to community policing principles and establish a partnership with the community. This paper addresses three research questions ... -
Examining the Richness of Browsing in Digital Libraries & Netflix
(2021-06)Search and browsing are essential to information retrieval in libraries. Digital library users will engage in these behaviors to find books they need in any digital library’s interface. Search is supported through the ... -
Improving Commuter Safety Through Geographical Crime Data Mapping
(2021-06-09)Due to the rapid increase in mobile technology, many people use a smartphone on a daily basis to commute. However, the current mobile map applications lack the ability to visualize how safe the route will be, especially ... -
Design the Conversation
(2021-05)Design the Conversation is a website designed to synthesize the latest research on conversation, design, and the under explored area of shaping conversation in our workplaces; a place where together we can explore what new ... -
heridea.design : An Exploration of the Messy History of Women's Place in Graphic Design
(2021-05)Thumb through a graphic design history book, or even search the internet for “most influential graphic designers” and find yourself asking: where are all the women designers? Graphic design’s history has been written to ... -
Remote Testing of AR HUDs for Lunar Exploration
(2021-05-27)This thesis is an observational case study exploring human navigation using augmented reality (AR) on the moon. This research was conducted remotely using a game-like simulation to test the design of a Heads-Up Display ... -
Voi: An iPad-based interactive application focused on helping people decide where they'd like to travel
(2021-05-06)Voi (pronounced voy) is an iPad based application that focuses on helping people decide where they would like to travel. Voi aims to bridge the gap between people who like doing their own travel research but also like ... -
Simulating Homonymous Hemianopsia for the Care Team
(2021-05)Homonymous hemianopsia is a visual impairment that involves the bilateral loss of a complete visual field. While research has been done to ascertain the details of the cause and prognosis of homonymous hemianopsia, an ...